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I came across this interesting post and thought to share with eveyrone. Its the opinion of a Muslim lady about enforcement of hijab in Iran.  Bravo! sister for speaking up. :-)

Asalaam u alikum/hi

I am speechless as I write this post. I viewed a video showing Irani police women forcing hijab on other females. As a Muslim woman, I have great love and respect for the dress code in Islam. To me, it represents Allah’s love and His protection. A woman is regarded with dignity and respect when she is dressed modestly. Hijab does not just implies outside modesty but it reflects inside modesty as well. Therefore, if you really practice Hijab, than your conduct, manner and speech will also be in line with your dress. That implies to men too, a guy should be modest in the same manner as the girl. In his speech, actions and manner.

In today’s society, Hijab have become a joke! The very essence of it, is used to exploit and oppress others. Allah oriented it for protection and respect but many use to oppress and exploit females. Let’s suppose, you succeed in oppressing a female to wear it, do you think she will be wearing Hijab for the love of Allah tallah? Do you think she will feel freedom when she puts it on. Each time, she will place it on her head, she will be doing it out of fear, and each time it resides on her head she will feel oppressed.

This is how conditioning works:

1. Also called operant conditioning, instrumental conditioning. a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.
2. Also called classical conditioning, Pavlovian conditioning, respondent conditioning. a process in which a stimulus that was previously neutral, as the sound of a bell, comes to evoke a particular response, as salivation, by being repeatedly paired with another stimulus that normally evokes the response, as the taste of food.

Example (Taken from: http://www.ar.cc.mn.us/biederman/courses/p1110/conditioning2.htm)
An individual receives frequent injections of drugs, which are administered in a small examination room at a clinic. The drug itself causes increased heart rate but after several trips to the clinic, simply being in a small room causes an increased heart rate.

Now applying this to what they are doing to Muslim women in the name of Islam.
Female(s) going out without head cover or going out with mild coverage (here I am talking about hair coverage), encounter oppression in terms of beating, verbal harassment and let’s NOT forget sexual harassment. Over time, the female will be less likely to go out without proper coverage.

However, her coverage has nothing to do with Islam or to feel the essence of Hajab (in terms of dignity, freedom, and respect). She is covering in order to escape the oppression per se. Hajab which is such a pure and modest symbol get linked with these negative feelings. Over time, if the female get out of such environment, she will be less likely to wear Hijab. So you see, what these people are doing in reality is creating hate and resentment for Hajab.

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